MS CLAKE IS DOING A PHD WITH LUKE KENNARD AT BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, ON THE FEMINIST ABSURD IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH POETRY JENNA CLAKE I...

Monday, 20 February 2012

Doh! More Simpsons

The news that the 500th Simpsons episode is done and dusted should be a time of global lament, not joy. The Simpsons was once one of the smartest, sassiest, and yes, most post-modern, TV shows of all time - indeed, it will always be noteworthy for its first few brilliant seasons. However, it has long become a tedious rehash, cheapening its satire of media and society by becoming that worst sort of bore - the hanger-on at the party with the lampshade on, who doesn't know when to go home. 23 seasons is enough. The thought of two more is just groan-inducing. Someone should get a big yellow rubber (eraser) out, and start cutting back...